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File beat is maintained be elastic and a part of their product line just
like ELK. It's a fantastic tool and quite flexible given its age and size
of codebase

On Nov 26, 2016 11:59 PM, "Jeffrey Zhang" <zhang.lei.fly at gmail.com> wrote:

> Heka is marked deprecated in Kolla during Newton cycle[0]. And Now we have
> a
> blueprint for this[1]. Two alternatives, fluentd[3] and Filebeat.
>
> For Filebeat, it is just a replacement of logstash-forward[2]. It is not
> intent
> to replace the Logstash at all.
>
> > Filebeat is based on the Logstash Forwarder source code and replaces
> Logstash
> > Forwarder as the method to use for tailing log files and forwarding them
> to
> > Logstash.
>
> Fillebeat is a log transport tool rather than log processing too. I do not
> treat it as an alternative at all.
>
> To be honest, I'd like back to Logstash, and Logstash 5.x is released with
> high
> performance improvement[4].
>
> >  In our performance testing, we've seen consistent throughput increases
> >  across multiple configurations. In some cases, we observed up to 75%
> >  increase in events processed through Logstash.
>
> another benefit to using Logstash is the whole ELK stack is maintained by
> one
> community/company. It is well tested and easy to upgrade the whole stack
> at the
> same time. Using other tools may force us on certain elasticsearch release.
>
> So, I think we have to alternative tools.
>
> * Fluentd
> * Logstash
>
> IMO, we need to make the decision and at least prepare the migration
> solution now.
>
> [1] https://blueprints.launchpad.net/kolla/+spec/heka-deprecation
> [2] https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/filebeat/current/
> migrating-from-logstash-forwarder.html
> [3] http://www.fluentd.org/
> [4] https://www.elastic.co/blog/logstash-5-0-0-released
>
> --
> Regards,
> Jeffrey Zhang
> Blog: http://xcodest.me
>
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